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Making women matter : the role of the United Nations / Hilkka Pietilä and Jeanne Vickers ; foreword by Gertrude Mongella.

By: Contributor(s): Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 3rd ed., with new introdDescription: x, 198 pages; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1856494586 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42 23
Contents:
1. Towards New Millennia: Forward from Nairobi -- 2. Development from Women's Point of View -- 3. Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women: Equality-Development-Peace -- 4. The United Nations Decade for Women: 1976-1985 -- 5. The Importance of Other World Conferences -- 6. An Institutional Breakthrough in the United Nations System -- 7. The UN System's Concrete Commitment to Women -- 8. The Emerging Rights of Women -- 9. The Issues for the '90s: Violence Against Women and the Environment -- 10. Promises and Doubts: Women's Future with the United Nations -- Annex: 1. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (full text) -- Annex: 2. Selected Guidelines and Checklists for Women in Development (INSTRAW) --Annex: 3. Organizations that have agreed to implement the System-wide Medium-term Plan for Women and Development -- Annex: 4. United Nations World Conferences 1972-1994 -- Annex: 5. How to organize a national or local campaign.
Annex: 6. Relevant International Instruments.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 305.42 PIE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library (Available for research in the library) Restricted Access 90379

The new introduction to the 3rd edition considers the achievements of the Beijing Conference and the impact they will have on wormen throughout the world in the years ahead.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Towards New Millennia: Forward from Nairobi -- 2. Development from Women's Point of View -- 3. Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women: Equality-Development-Peace -- 4. The United Nations Decade for Women: 1976-1985 -- 5. The Importance of Other World Conferences -- 6. An Institutional Breakthrough in the United Nations System -- 7. The UN System's Concrete Commitment to Women -- 8. The Emerging Rights of Women -- 9. The Issues for the '90s: Violence Against Women and the Environment -- 10. Promises and Doubts: Women's Future with the United Nations -- Annex: 1. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (full text) -- Annex: 2. Selected Guidelines and Checklists for Women in Development (INSTRAW) --Annex: 3. Organizations that have agreed to implement the System-wide Medium-term Plan for Women and Development -- Annex: 4. United Nations World Conferences 1972-1994 -- Annex: 5. How to organize a national or local campaign.

Annex: 6. Relevant International Instruments.

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